My Contribution to Pre-Production and Construction

My Contribution to Pre-Production and Construction

 

When planning our opening title sequence we assigned different roles to each member of the group in order to split up the work load and hopefully improve the quality of our final work. I was set the task of securing props and costumes. I believe that I fulfilled the task well as I managed to get costumes that suited the needed characters and genre of the film and the only props needed where guns which I could easily get hold of from friends.



I was an actor in our OTS playing the part of the agent who is killed at the end, however I also believe that I took the role of director as I came up with the main bulk of the script and plot, my ideas and interpretations of each scene are most dominant. Working as a team we always discussed our separate ideas before shooting a scene which occasionally lead to tensions and I believe that I took control of situation like these and made us decide on how we would film a scene or take multiple takes using everyone idea to see which is best and giving us a wider variety to choose from when editing, this is another one of the reasons I was listed as Director in the credits of our opening title sequence.

The OTS was also filmed at my house, after I offered as it was a secluded area where we would not need to get permission to carry the gun props around. Finding a location was meant to be one persons responsibility but ended up being a group effort with all of us looking at locations that could be possible filming spots and we eventually agreed that filming at my house would be easier after I discovered that we would have to provide the police with exact times and dates which we would be filming at if we did it in a public place (which we where unsure of).

I also contributed to the editing process of our work creating most of the final opening title sequence you see using Adobe After Effects. I defiantly cannot take all the credit though as the entire first draft which acted as a base for the final product was made by Fateh Khaled two days after we filmed and a lot of the lip syncing with our foley was done by Harry Denn.

This our Final AS Media Opening Title Sequence 'Vindicate'-